For old times’ sake …. earn bonus miles with a Tesco Clubcard deal

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• Supersub says:

  24 May24 May 08:48

  Remember Tesco Wine once had a bumper points offer based on number of bottles bought (regardless of size) – so I bought a warehouse full of JP Chenet miniatures. Lived off red wine stews for months as you certainly couldn’t drink the stuff.
  Happy days.

  • meta says:

    24 May24 May 12:39

    Oh I now remember that one! Half had to go down the drain as couldn’t use all for cooking 😂

• The Urbanite says:

  24 May24 May 08:57

  Maggi Noodles – 20 Clubcard points per pack with the magazine voucher. At the same time they were doing an offer, 3 packs for 60p.

  I used to buy a trolleyload then dump them all in the foodbank before leaving the store.

• Gavin says:

  24 May24 May 09:15

  I was never brave enough to really maximise the 3V prepaid cards, I seemed to always be treated with extreme suspicion like I was a criminal! Probably spent something like £5k on them in total.

  • Gavin says:

    24 May24 May 09:17

    I also bought them in bulk from Morisson’s, as they issued a fuel voucher after purchasing the giftcards which could easily be sold on eBay. Morrison’s was easier as you could usually use the self checkouts.

    • The Urbanite says:

      24 May24 May 22:06

      Yes those Morrisons fuel vouchers. £1 off per litre 😂

• Mikeact says:

  24 May24 May 09:21

  We took full advantage of any offers going, (not the frozen beef etc. there were limits)….cost quite a lot overall, but we got far more back..highlight…two of us Business to Cape Town and back, and afternoon tea at the ‘Mount Nelly’ before flying home.

• Panda Mick says:

  24 May24 May 09:30

  I’m surprised no one has mentioned Printer cartridge recycling!

  The gamble of buying 100 used cartridges off eBay for £50, shoving a label on the box, and sending it to Tesco to see just exactly how many gained points….

  20,000 avios for £50 wasn’t a bad return 🙂

• Richard says:

  24 May24 May 09:30

  Lol! I used to orbit the Edinburgh ~10 Tescos twice daily when the Birds Eye beef offer was on. I even managed to order a bulk load as a “donation” to a food bank. I would hand out bag fulls of the stuff to sceptical OAPs in the car park and the freezer was packed full! I would rinse off the gravy and use the beef in all sorts of meals. It was disgusting stuff but it topped up the BA Miles account very nicely! It all ended when security started to follow me out the store and then a store manager refused to let me buy anymore. Game Over! Then I went back to the random offers like buying 10 Dysons when I popped in for milk. Happy days!

• Ghosty says:

  24 May24 May 09:37

  I managed to get over a million air miles and not 1 from flying. Mostly from the Health & beauty promotion, combined with coupons and Tesco’s IT calculating 2-for-1 as total price for accepting the coupons but still charging half. With reselling at car boot sales I was actually in profit: and I’m still going through my remaining stash of shower gel now.
  For the 3v cards I used to take the ‘scenic route’ to watch my local football team play away, with a few Morrisons visits thrown in to pay for the petrol. A few months ago I found a heavy box file that when opened was crammed full of used 3v cards stacked upwards.

• Richard Thomas says:

  24 May24 May 10:03

  Talcum powder for me, £300 worth got the wife and I two returns to Chicago in Club. Used to go in at 03:00 in the morning after the shelf had been restocked. (on the way home from a shift)

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